FFN Festival Speakers | 2026
About Lisa
Artist • Writer • Organic Grower • FFN Ambassador
Lisa Fingleton is a Farming For Nature Ambassador as well as an artist, writer and grower who has spent over twenty years cultivating deep-rooted connections between art, food and farming. Her projects incorporate socially engaged, collaborative and performative processes; participatory moving image; large scale drawing installations; as well as creative and autobiographical writing.
The Barna Way & Eco-Social Arts
Grounded on a nineteen acre organic farm and woodlands on the west coast of Ireland, she and her partner Rena Blake run an eco social arts project called ‘The Barna Way’. From here they engage with diverse community groups through social farming and live food and cultural events, while protecting habitats for wildlife.
This project is propelled by an accelerated sense of urgency around food insecurity, the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and forced migration.
Creative Climate Action & Published Work
Lisa was most recently the embedded artist with ‘Brilliant Ballybunion’, a Creative Climate Action Project managed by Creative Ireland, supporting the community to be creative, grow food and protect biodiversity.
The project was showcased last year at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and they just launched a new book called “What if We were brilliant?”. Her book ‘The Local Food Project’ explores the power of growing local food. Lisa has an MA in documentary film (Goldsmiths College) and a degree in Fine Art (NCAD), and her work is in the National and State collections of Ireland.
As a Farming for Nature Ambassador, Lisa champions soil health, biological farming, and biodiversity, highlighting the link between good farming and good food.
See Lisa at the Festival
Join Lisa at the Farming for Nature Festival and hear her perspective on the connection between food, farming and biodiversity.
